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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: Nova67 on Thursday 09 October 25 04:06 BST (UK)
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I have heard that the Ancestry Ethnicity update might be October 9th. Then I also saw on Ancestry’s instagram that some customers may not get the update until December.
I have access to 21 DNA results and I am the only one not getting the message about the update when I go in to the ORIGINS part of my results., “Coming Soon! Big Updates are on the way…”
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We get that on each of the DNA tests we manage.
Still shows last update as July 2024 on each of them.
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Never found it useful for helping me fathom how I link to matches so they can hold mine back forever a far as I'm concerned.
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Ancestry’s Ethnicity is odd, completely different results now compared to when we first tested.
Now the 2024 updates reflects my actual Ethnicity pretty well 100%, and that is also how it is with all the other tests we manage.
Odd how some can be widely off the mark.
I am interested in what the 2025 update will show especially for one test we manage where theiR Mother was born in an EU country to unknown parents.
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It is 7am in Utah. No one has pushed the button yet.
I am getting close to midnight on the 9th.
Different timezones.
I must be waiting until December as the message is still not appearing ??? ???
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It is live now
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Just checked and my results have been updated
Chris
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I got my update a little before noon Eastern time in the US. I had only checked about 20 times since early this morning. Mine do seem more fine-tuned. I'll be interested in exploring further.
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Mine have updated.
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All ours are now updated.
I now have 12 ancestral regions but add up the sections and they still equate to the 4 regions where I know that they lived.
The new regions can show the migration to and from the original 4 known regions.
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Christa has been all over one of the US youtubers' channels but I tend to avoid the 'pat yourself on the back' uploads.
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I've gone from 45% English 32% Germanic 16% Scots to 85% English (67% Southern English) 5% German, 2% Scots.
The current version reflects my family tree for the first time although my 14% West Midlands is apparently all from my paternal line whereas it is my maternal line that has some West Midlands ancestry!
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Well, my new one looks rubbish!
A total of 20% of it has been allocated to areas where I have no-one on the paper trail - East Midlands, Donegal, Central Scotland, and South Wales.
Added to which, I've only had two matches in the last week!
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I have generations of Northumbrian ancestry and I got 2% for North East England, my mother 4%, my two aunts got 15% and 33%.
And I call myself a Novocastrian.
I was pleased to retain my 2% Icelandic.
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My little bit of Europe is moving around and diminishing - started off at 6% Russia/Finland, and has moved through Scandinavia, 2% Sweden/Denmark, to now only be 1% German. Must be the effects of Brexit !
I had 20% Scotland in the last version ( confirmed with lots of known history and records) but that has now entirely disappeared and gone to 0%. I have gained 31% NE England, where I have no known ancestors whatsoever, but I suspect that is now actually coming from my lowland/border Scots connections.
Generally though, allowing for the above, for me it is pretty close to what the records say.
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Being able to compare my ethnicity with some of my matches where we have both identified MRCA is very revealing. As expected substantial contradictions encountered. For me, it just highlights again that ethnicity reports are only for fun.
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I went from 10% France to 0%. Yet I have a gazillion DNA matches that take me right back to France (and is backed up via paper trail as well).
I'm not impressed. But I never put much stock in it anyway. Isn't it all derived from locations listed in people's trees, anyway?
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This is laughably bad. My aunt (my mother's sister), whose mother was 100% Scottish, has gone down to 2% Scottish/Irish.
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I too am struggling to understand how my Norwegian and Danish DNA has vanished but now some Dutch has arrived! I think the former equates with my apparent Hebrides/North West Highland ancestry (has to be from my maternal grandmother's unknown father) but the latter I thought came from the Danelaw. But the Anglo-Saxon invaders apparently included some Frisians so that could be it.
I'm puzzled as how I went from 40% Celtic (mostly Welsh) at first dwn to 30% and now up to 50%!
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I too am struggling to understand how my Norwegian and Danish DNA has vanished but now some Dutch has arrived! I think the former equates with my apparent Hebrides/North West Highland ancestry (has to be from my maternal grandmother's unknown father) but the latter I thought came from the Danelaw. But the Anglo-Saxon invaders apparently included some Frisians so that could be it.
I'm puzzled as how I went from 40% Celtic (mostly Welsh) at first dwn to 30% and now up to 50%!
I'll swap my apparent Danish ancestry (closest I actually have is my aunt's husband who was Danish) for your Dutch ethnicity since my Dutch ancestry (my grandmother's grandmother was Dutch) seems to have gotten lost somewhere ::)
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I too am struggling to understand how my Norwegian and Danish DNA has vanished but now some Dutch has arrived! I think the former equates with my apparent Hebrides/North West Highland ancestry (has to be from my maternal grandmother's unknown father) but the latter I thought came from the Danelaw. But the Anglo-Saxon invaders apparently included some Frisians so that could be it.
I'm puzzled as how I went from 40% Celtic (mostly Welsh) at first dwn to 30% and now up to 50%!
I'll swap my apparent Danish ancestry (closest I actually have is my aunt's husband who was Danish) for your Dutch ethnicity since my Dutch ancestry (my grandmother's grandmother was Dutch) seems to have gotten lost somewhere ::)
Well the Danish could come from the Danelaw ( a huge swathe of eastern England) or from the Jutes who settled Kent. Even the Angles were from whaqt is now Schlewsig-Holstein. But all these Germanic tribes were related - even the Normans to some extent, so maybe your Dutch ancestor's DNA mas been assigned as something else.
I too have a great-great grandmother unaccounted for in my DNA - she was Cornish. I wonder if she has been interpreted as South Welsh since I don't have a known ancestor from there. But asll these strands are supposed to have intermingled over the centuries. I expect Ancestry's next attempt will give us different interpretastions again.
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Currently I'm shown with 3% Danish and 2% Southern Germanic Europe (the area my ancestor actually came from). My mother was 3/4 German so there seems to be an awful lot of German ancestry unaccounted for. Seems to be way too much England ancestry from different regions ...
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I can't understand why they are trying to specify English Counties, one I manage is showing Somerset and Devon - family goes way back in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ::)
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I'm lucky in that I'm tested and both my Parents - We have some larger common trends but then I ask myself how I can have DNA from Denmark, my mum has Norwegian and my dad has some French which i fail to have.
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My Ethnicities have now gone from 8 to 11!
Mainly this seems to be because new Irish Regions have been added, but also I have gained some Arcadian, (French Canadian) DNA. I have no idea where this originates from…
Romilly.